It is widely recognized that in order to make performance validation an integrated activity along the software lifecycle it is crucial to be supported from automated approaches. E...
Vittorio Cortellessa, Antinisca Di Marco, Paola In...
As the properties of components have gradually become clearer, attention has started to turn to the architectural issues which govern their interaction and composition. In this pa...
Abstract. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requirements and architectures remains one of the challenging problems in software engineering research. To ...
There has recently been an increase in interest, among information systems architecture practitioners, in using viewpoints for architectural definition and description. This has be...
This paper takes the view that to be considered autonomous, a software agent must possess the means by which to manage its own motivations and so define new goals. Using the motiva...